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Uphill vs Ascent - What's the difference?

uphill | ascent |

As nouns the difference between uphill and ascent

is that uphill is an uphill route while ascent is the act of ascending a motion upwards.

As an adverb uphill

is up a slope, towards higher ground.

As an adjective uphill

is located up a slope or on a hill.

uphill

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • up a slope, towards higher ground
  • (by extension) with difficulty

    • Antonyms

    * downhill

    Adjective

    (further)
  • located up a slope or on a hill
  • going up a slope or a hill
  • (by extension) difficult or laborious

    • Usage notes

    * Sense 3 comparative and superlative is usually made with more and most

    Antonyms

    * downhill

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An uphill route.

    • Antonyms

    * downhill English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    ascent

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of ascending. A motion upwards.
    • He made a tedious ascent of Mont Blanc.
  • The way or means by which one ascends.
    • There is a difficult northern ascent from Malaucene of Mont Ventoux.
  • An eminence, hill, or high place.
  • The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.
    • The road has an ascent of 5 degrees.
  • (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
  • An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
    (Webster 1913)

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